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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 527. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and remedy the delay in the assessment of need and diagnosis which is the legal right of a person (details supplied) within the prescribed time period of six months. [60015/21]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely would like to be able to say I think this Bill will make any difference at all in improving the lot of those who are looking for private rented accommodation, living in such accommodation or facing eviction, or who have been evicted, through no fault of their own, from such accommodation. Tragically, there is really nothing at all in the Bill that will make the slightest bit of...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vótáil.

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It really directly follows on from that and goes back to the point I made earlier in asking what the point is here. My understanding is that the Minister does not envisage introducing mandatory hotel quarantine for UK arrivals, or at least, that is the signal we got. What we were talking about is states like South Africa, where there have been restrictions placed on travel. I think they...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mandatory quarantining cannot stop Omicron, yet that is the only reason mandatory quarantining is being considered. What is the point? What is the endgame of putting a large amount of resources and money into putting a draconian measure into place? Although we did not agree with the Minister's version of mandatory quarantining, we called for mandatory quarantining when the population was...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not all.

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Equality of treatment.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where would we get the money if we did not have these investors to build the houses we need? Credit unions have said repeatedly they have the money, which are savings as well, but in a not-for-profit institution, where they have the interests of our communities and the social objective of housing people at heart. That is one source of money. I refer to what we discussed earlier about...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is an implication that we could not do it without them. When this country was effectively a Third World country, we were able to build public housing. It can and should be done.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 40 relates to the tax treatment of institutional investors and corporate landlords and their impact on the housing sector, affordability and rents. I did not hear all of Deputy Lahart's contribution but the thrust of it seemed to suggest that there was a time when we needed these investors and that they brought some beneficial impact to the housing sector but that maybe we need...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said we questioned the issue.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was international questioning. We were part of it.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would not claim credit for major international changes in corporate tax. However, until we arrived in the Dáil, nobody was willing to question these things. I speak no word of a lie when I say I was on the finance committee and we asked for Google, Facebook and Apple to come in to the committee to explain their tax affairs and effective tax rate. Not only did the committee vote...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Under socialism, we would want foreign direct investment. I welcome the jobs. I understand how important they are in many areas, including my own constituency, where a number of these multinationals are located. That does not mean they should not pay their fair share of tax. I will give an example from The Irish Timesthis year, "Google used 'double-Irish' [which was supposed to be gone in...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 17: In page 94, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “Reports 37.Before the publication of the Finance Bill 2022, the Minister shall lay a report before the Dáil, on the impact of the change of the corporate tax rate to 15 per cent, and what measures are needed to ensure that this rate is a minimum effective rate which cannot be circumvented...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Farrell has made most of the points and it is her and Deputy Doherty's amendment. My wider view on banks is that, after we bailed them out, we should have kept them in public ownership, taken them over and developed a not-for-profit banking system. These private banks we bailed out are carrying losses forward and dramatically reducing their tax liabilities year on year. Then their...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----it will take me two years to get into the WRC and Speedy Gonzales is gone over the horizon but Warner Brothers will still be around. I am asking this as a serious question because there is a distinction between how the live-action film industry and the animation industry operate. The animation industry does not go cartoon by cartoon. People are employed by an actual company and they...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I am.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15: In page 81, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(c) whether the employment generated in the development of the digital game ensures quality employment and training for those employed in its development and in particular to ensure that the digital games development company is not engaged in bogus self employment or employment practices which...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, but let us be honest, we are dependent on the information from the ground. It is difficult to establish the real facts on the ground. It is a hard thing for the officials to do as well. We are all dealing with multiple issues. We are talking to particular people, but we get a better sense when we get everybody in a room, and we hear the different perspectives, especially when we...